Monday, March 22, 2010

AMERICA, INTEGRATED OR STILL SEGREGATED?

Where do you live? Seriously, look around you. Where is your home? A nice suburb? Apartment, house in the country, a townhouse, an aparmtment in the projects, hood, whatever you want to call it? Are you on section 8 government housing?

To those of you living in section 8 government housing, what does it look like? Seriously, forget the fresh paint and nice apartment, because some are fairly nice. What is your flooring like? What are the walls on the inside like? What are they made out of? Who do you live next to and what are they like? Do you want to move? Want to get out of that neighborhood, that housing?

I have been in several apartments in the local section 8 government housing areas. One things I noticed is that the outside is just some really plain looking brick apartments. The inside? No carpet, ceramic, white tiles, and cinder block walls. Have you ever been on the inside of a jail? The same white floors and cinder block walls. Seriously. How many white people live in your section 8 government housing apartment buildings and are your neighbors? How many are black? How many have been to jail or to prison? Do you have kids?

We are all capable of making mistakes and getting into trouble. I knock nobody who has been locked up for one thing or another, but section 8 housing complexes tend to be more dangerous than other areas. The lifestyles that surround these complexes are dangerous as well. There are some really good people, who unfortunately either believe that they can do no better, or have settled for less than they can do. Or is it that government has set it up for the people to fail?

Look at the welfare system for a moment. Many on welfare also get foodstamps and are living in section 8 housing. When someone on welfare gets a job and tries to get or make a better life, welfare help, foodstamps, and/or section 8 housing is pulled and the person is no longer eligible for government support. What? That is correct. I have worked with several people in the past that could not work more than part time, and could not earn more than 8.00 an hour, or they would lose their government welfare benefits. Which meant, that they, their kids, and anyone else would immediately have to find other housing and start paying full rent elsewhere, purchase all their own food, and pay all thier own utilities, etc.

The only thing that accomplishes is to keep people where they currently are at this point in time. It does nothing to help the poorer people to gain independence from the government and get on their feet. I would think that the government would welcome those on welfare going back to school, earning a decent income and getting out on their own; however, this is not what is happening. People remain on welfare and generations of people receive welfare and never work, even though they may be able to work. There is no inncentive for a person to make themselves better and strive for being independent. Why?

The politicians that claim to want what Martin Luther King Jr. wanted are lying to the people on welfare and section 8 housing. They want votes, and they have an agenda to accomplish and get through. By keeping the majority of black and white Americans segregated, government can scream racism and racist and many believe what they hear. Politicians, who they trust, say government run healthcare will be best, and they believe it and they want it. If there is anything that I could encourage people in the low income, section 8 housing, welfare, food stamp, and other low income/no income groups to do is to be sure that you know for a fact where your politicians stand and what their principals are and their morals.

Are you a Christian? Can you look at your politicians and know or tell that they vote in line with your Christian principals? If not, then vote against them. AS Americans, we have a duty to ourselves, our neighbors, and our country, to put in office, those who will truly see to the integration of our society. Why is section 8housing only offered for those living in the projects or in trailer parks? Why can't section 8 give X amount of money toward the purchase of a new mobile home on a small quarter acre, half acre, or acre of land? Why not pay the first year's payments while people get work and start getting on their feet? There are ways that the welfare system can work to help those who need it, but your politicians are not interested in that? Why? To keep you right where you are so that they can tell you whatever they want to and you will believe it.

Please, look around yourself, and seriously look at your situaiton. What do you think?

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